Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 09:32:36 -0600 From: Matt Meola <mmeola@uswest.com> To: ctm-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CTM mirrors Message-ID: <20010720093236.G52514@kc0dxw-2.uswc.uswest.com> In-Reply-To: <3B576081.AB4CFAF3@math.missouri.edu>; from stephen@math.missouri.edu on Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 05:34:41PM -0500 References: <3B576081.AB4CFAF3@math.missouri.edu>
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OK, I'll bite... But I'm not sure this is the proper list for this -- is there a "freebsd-chat"? Some of us run FreeBSD surruptitiously behind a corporate firewall. If CTM ever truly goes away, then it's Linux for me, since rpm/urpmi can handle ftp and http proxies... On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 05:34:41PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > OK, I feel it is time to say a bit about what is happening. I am the > owner of the computer that generates the CTM delta's. Chuck who has > been managing CTM is not able to manage it right now. So I have taken > it upon myself to try to keep it working. > > Last week the computer had a serious disk crash, which has now been > fixed. This was the reason for the last delay. > > Now, I am trying to persuade the various FreeBSD mirrors to update their > mirrors. The response I am getting is "why do people use CTM when there > is CVSUP"? Here is an edited excerpt from a message I got in response > when I sent a message to freebsd-hubs: > > ..... as a mirror admin, i have to admit, i'm still not clear on what > CTM > is and who uses it. since you appear to.. > > o what is it ? > o where is the "master" site ? > o how much disk space does a full current CTM archive require ? > o how does one mirror it ? rsync ? > o how does one make it available to end users ? (plain old http/ftp?) > o why would someone need access to it over the CVSup tree ? > > ....... > > So if you chaps could help me out with the public relations, I would > really appreciate it. -- Matt Meola AFØD af0d@qsl.net ARES CO D. 6 AEC http://www.qsl.net/af0d To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe ctm-announce" in the body of the message
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